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Social Science Emigration & Immigration

A History of Migration from Germany to Canada, 1850-1939

by (author) Jonathan Wagner

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2005
Category
Emigration & Immigration, General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774812153
    Publish Date
    Dec 2005
    List Price
    $95.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774812160
    Publish Date
    Jul 2006
    List Price
    $34.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774841542
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $34.95

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Jonathan Wagner considers why Germans left their home country, why they chose to settle in Canada, who assisted their passage, and how they crossed the ocean to their new home, as well as how the Canadian government perceived and solicited them as immigrants. He examines the German context as closely as developments in Canada, offering a new, more complete approach to German-Canadian immigration.

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Contributor Notes

Jonathan Wagner teaches in the Department of History at Minot State University.

Editorial Reviews

Wagner’s book provides a valuable case study, tying together not only basic push and pull factors, but also the responses of governments to the challenges of migration during the rapid urbanization and industrialization of Germany and the massive task of settling the Canadian Prairies ... it is a valuable study of the political, social, and technological processes facilitating migration in an international context that will be useful for future research in the field of migration history.

Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. XXXVIII, no. 1